A Disability of the Soul : an Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan

A Disability of the Soul : an Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan /

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Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on the...

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Main Author: Nakamura, Karen, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013
Subjects:
Beteru no Ie (Urakawa-chō, Japan)
Mentally ill > Rehabilitation > Japan > Urakawa-chō.
Schizophrenics > Rehabilitation > Japan > Urakawa-chō.
Community mental health services > Japan > Urakawa-chō.
Mental illness > Social aspects > Japan.
Schizophrenia > Social aspects > Japan.
Mental health services.
Mentally ill women.
Mental Health Services
Mentally Ill Persons
mentally ill.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A Disability of the Soul
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language
  • CHAPTER ONE: Arrivals
  • Memory and Catharsis: Kiyoshi's Story
  • CHAPTER TWO: Psychiatry in Japan
  • Coming of Age in Japan: Rika's Story
  • CHAPTER THREE: Hokkaido and Christianity
  • CHAPTER FOUR: The Founding of Bethel
  • UFOs and Other Mass Delusions: Kohei's Story
  • CHAPTER FIVE: The Doctor and the Hospital
  • Thirty-Seven Years of Institutionalization: Why Did Yuzuru Never Want to Leave the Hospital?
  • CHAPTER SIX: Bethel Therapies: Peer Support and a Meaningful Life: Gen's Story
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Departures
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Beyond Bethel: A Postscript
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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